"I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you." Anthony Bourdain

“Do you work well under pressure?” Is this a job that involves real urgencies like an ER or a fire department, or is the pressure manufactured through poor management, uneven workload distribution, and inflated importance at the upper management level?

That loud whistle people do with their fingers in their mouths.

When the bubble bursts, there will be so many saying they didn't mean to hurt anyone. They didn't mean to put people out of work, to destroy their purpose, to steal their hope. They'll say they had no idea the silly videos or the cartoon faces they made with AI were built on theft. They just wanted to do their work faster (and didn't want to admit AI actually slowed them down because others would think they weren't tech savvy and they might get left behind). Taking jobs? Destroying skills? Devastating neighborhoods? Contributing to drought, soaring utilities, joblessness? They didn't mean to. That wasn't their goal. What they'll mean is they chose to ignore the problems because they didn't think they'd be held responsible for contributing to them. They weren't really their problems, anyway. They were going to get ahead without having to work hard for it, without having to devote the years that others put in to the work AI stole. What they'll mean is: the plan was for someone else to pay and they were fine with that. When the bubble bursts, it will be too late to apologize. The bill will be due. The debt won't be forgiven.

I love this so much. I need to build this for my house

Everyone is reading the new encyclical of the pope like it's the latest hit novel lmao

Encyclical Against the Machine

PICARD: Data, shields up DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy. [camera shakes] WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

Breaking: man whose entire job is discussing morality discusses morality.

The 2,000 year old engine of cultural production that is Catholicism has one again generated the best Pope for this historical moment

Pope Leo XIV: “It is, therefore, not enough to state simply that men and women have equal dignity and rights; it is necessary that this be reflected in concrete decisions, such as in laws, access to employment, education, social and political responsibilities, and the way society listens to and values women’s contributions. As long as this gap persists, we cannot say that society truly and fully recognizes that women have the same dignity as men.”

HUGE day for @StephenAtHome, his two faiths colliding.

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…

Magnifica Humanitas is coming Monday. I am praying it carries the weight it needs to carry. I've worked in tech for 30 years and I've never had such significant concerns. americamagazine.org/short-ta…

playing hide-and-seek with 3yo son. just the two of us. he wants to hide together. we are hiding together. we are in the closet. it’s perfectly dark. we’re very cramped. there is no one looking for us. i am trying to explain this. he is laughing uncontrollably

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

Help. Gemini won't stop saying "Raw Iron" as in, "The "Raw Iron" of this recipe is milk, butter, eggs..." Across all chats and topics. I don't know where it came from or how to make it stop. Thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. 🙏

frog told the LLM "do not hallucinate" "there," he said, "now the LLM will not make mistakes" "but the LLM can still hallucinate" said toad "that is true" said frog

Claude bingo

I'm crying bro, people are using The Machine That Arranges Words In Very Plausible Orders for serious applications and then ending up surprised when the plausible arrangements of words aren't always actual truth

Only a small exaggeration